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My setup at work hasn't changed much in a long time. I've got the same chair,

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the same custom desk PC, and even the same peripherals that I've had for years

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now because once I find something that I'm comfortable with, I generally like

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to just stick with it. The one exception is my monitor. Over the years, I've gone

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from 16x9 to ultra wide to even ultra

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wider. And as you guys can see here, I am still struggling to fit all the

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things that I do on a very regular basis onto a single display. So today I have

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the solution. This is actually something that I've wanted to do for quite some

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time and I'm finally pulling the trigger. I am going dual monitor, but

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not in the way you might think. I am going dual

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super mega ultra wide

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49 inch monitor. Oh yeah.

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And they're going to be stacked. On the face of it, an upgrade like this is

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pretty simple. You open up the monitor, chuck it on the desk, plug in a display

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cable, and you're pretty much good to go. The problem is that, as you guys can

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see, fitting two of these side by side

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on my desk is not going to work very well.

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Fortunately, we're going to try this, which I think

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will work, even though it's not technically rated for the full weight of these two displays. Caution, heavy.

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All right, so let's start by opening up

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the monitor. Unlike some of the earlier 49 inch like extra wide monitors, this

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one has a very similar pixel density to

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the original 3440x440 ultrawide. So, because it's even wider,

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it's still 1440 pixels high, but it's

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actually 5120 pixels wide. So, it's kind

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of the equivalent of 5K except sliced in

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half down the middle. That gives you effectively both the resolution and area

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of two 27 inch 1440p monitors side by

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side with no bezel down the middle. It occurs to me I don't actually need the

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stand. One moment please.

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Oh, touched my face. Sanitizing time.

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You already touched it. It's too late. And I might touch it again. So I'm going

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to sanitize. Oh man, these things are

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beasts. Oh boy. It's really nice that most curved monitors these days ah still

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managed to include a standard base amount because there was a while there

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where you had to get like weirdo special adapters that you had to purchase

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assuming you could even find them. And it's easy to say, well curved monitors

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are stupid. Why don't you just get a non-curved monitor? But the thing is

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when something is this wide, the curve

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actually does make a difference. So it'll help with any color shift that you

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might get. I mean, it's an IPS panel, so it won't be a ton, but you will get a

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little bit. And also just makes it a little bit more natural, so you're

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looking head onto the display even when you turn your head, which you'll do.

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This is really heavy. I need to put this down. Ah, okay.

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None of this has been a surprise so far, though. That's the exact same monitor I'm already using. The X Factor is the

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Vivo monitor table stand. It's rated for

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27 in stacked on top. These are basically 27s, but two of them. So, as

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long as their weight restriction here has some buffer built into it, I figure

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ah, we should be all right. Nuts down.

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Where'd this come from? Must go the other way then.

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The slotted ones are here. So, unless you want it to be able to slide out, but

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then I guess you anchor it. You know what? I'll look at the instructions. Oh, I missed a step.

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Gee, pole cover. I don't see an obvious way to detach the plate from the mount

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here. So, yeah, I really think it'd be easier to slide the monitor on. Then

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again, maybe not. I don't know. It's going to be so heavy by the time I'm doing that. There really doesn't seem to

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be an industry standard for who is supposed to provide the screws for a

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vase mount. Here, LG has included the screws, but I've seen lots of monitors

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that don't include the screws. I'm going to use LG's screws. They're black and

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they match. Oh, shoot. I forgot the washers.

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Does it matter? We're going to put the washers on. Okay,

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this here. This thing weighs about 30

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lb.

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Ow, my finger. You know, maybe there's something to be said for Apple's

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thousand stand. I don't know if I can wrench this any tighter. Okay.

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Oh boy. Oh man, I'm cranking this so hard. But I'm worried it's going to

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shear off.

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Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, I think it's holding. Wow, that was

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an uncomfortable amount of pressure. Time for the tricky part now.

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So long there, buddy. Nice knowing you. Wow. Where am I going to put my webcam?

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Okay, this time I'm going to crank this mount

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while it's easy to get at cuz we are way over the rated weight.

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How are you going to do that? You need two people, I feel. No, I got this. Don't worry.

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Oh my god. So long. Yeah, that's what she said.

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Oh no, the plastic insert is coming out, but it's it's on there too much to

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easily get it off now.

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Hopefully I don't get guillotined here. Oh,

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okay. That's heavy. Maybe that's our thumbnail. Okay, come

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on. Okay, both of the plastic inserts came out.

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These suck and they're bad and I hate them. Now they're back in there. But

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like what keeps them in there? I don't know. Do you need help?

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No, I'm good. I got this. I got this.

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Look. Oh, the people paid good money to watch me struggle. Don't worry about it. It's

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fine. was flexing a lot.

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I went back. Are you okay? If you need to take a break, you should take a break.

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One second. And if we need to switch to a lighter camera, we should switch to a lighter

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camera. I'm fine. I'm fine. Dennis, making fine adjustments to this

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is not going to be possible. Oh, come on. Stop.

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No. What are you stuck on? Keep getting my fingers crushed. That's going on

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easy. Are they on there properly? You feel

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that? Do they look like they're on there

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properly? I thought you going to say like we're done. Like

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no. Jake said even for his 34s he had to

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like crank the Jesus out of these. Ow. I

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just bruised my palm. Wait, what? What is it even hitting? Okay, well that's

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progress. Hey, credit to LG for the packing material for this monitor. And

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if you think this looks horrible, you should have seen what Jake had to do for 16K gaming. That was 16 monitors. I

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think the whole stand is leaning forward.

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I think the whole desk is leaning forward. Oh my god.

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Can we switch to a lighter camera? It's not on right. Recording.

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So, we're down to our fifth string camera operator. Don't move anything heavy. And go fill

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out the form. Dennis, he hurt his back.

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He was laughing at me. That's why that's how he did it. Oh, yeah. Well,

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so if you guys notice, the camera's a little

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Yeah. Sorry, guys. That's That's Riley. He's helping us out

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here. Well, that looks crazy. You know what? I'm going to run my

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DisplayPort and power cables first because this is uh going to be

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challenging. I didn't cut an entry slit for a second monitor here. Ow. Oh, man.

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Riddle me this, Riley. Should I go with them not quite buted together, but with

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the top one angled down at me a little bit, even though that means a slightly

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bigger gap here? I mean, I feel like you probably should

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angle it down a bit, eh? How triggered am I going to get by this gap, though?

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I'm going to butt them up together. Yeah, tightness. That's my specialty.

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Damn. That's what I like. Settling.

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It'll do. Yeah. You need help. You need help. No, I can move it.

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Okay. Don't move anything heavy. Oh god, that's heavy. Okay.

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You want me to move the keyboard? Hopefully it won't scratch the glass. No. No. I got this. I got this. I got

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this. Oh. Oh. Twist a little.

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The people paid good money to see me struggle.

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And right now they can't see me cuz I'm behind the monitor. But oh, I assure you

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the struggle is real. I think they just need to

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like that. There's a chance it's still aligned.

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Oh. Oh, that's good. That's where the DP goes in. This is where the second DP

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goes in. I can't get behind it to lift it, you know. Uh, this is where you

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could almost need uh use help of some kind.

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Okay, way back. Yeah, you know, it held uh 50% more than

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its rated weight. You know what's funny is I believe LG

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actually moved the nipple from the bottom here to over here in case of

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installations like this. And I laughed at them at CES. I laughed at them. I was

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like, "Nobody's going to do that."

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Now, all I need to do is get all my Windows arranged. Now LG and there

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actually third parties that have window management programs that allow you to

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split your screens up into many more zones than the normal window snap where

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you just or arrow snap or whatever they call it now where you just kind of go

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like that. But in the meantime, this is

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where I kind of expect things to land. So I want something for my Microsoft

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Teams chat. Yes, we use Microsoft Teams. No, it's not perfect, but um well, we're

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using it uh here. whatever I'm currently

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writing or uh reviewing someone else, you know, a web browser for maybe I'm

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doing some research or browsing the forum to see what people are saying over

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there. Uh here where I can go through all of our video ideas. This is a much

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older version of this sheet that I can show you guys because it's all stuff

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that we did ages ago. And then up here, this is this is the big one. being able

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to stretch out Trello here so that I can

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see every stage of the production queue.

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Um, and all the assignments. I can't show you the writer ones cuz there's a lot of projects that we haven't released

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yet. Better make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of them. But, uh, being able to see what everyone's

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supposed to be working on all at once and then organize things into it without

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moving back and forth between different browser Windows and stuff like that.

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Really very excited about this. I'm not

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100% sure on the ergonomics. Could I

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have just put a TV on my desk? Yes. But damn it, this is Linus Tech

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Tips. Okay. It's not how we do things around here. Here

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we we mount our webcams

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where I'm going to end up with the solution from all those laptops. Put it up here

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and point it up the nose. No. Oh, that's going to be awful. Now that

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you're done watching this video, you might actually want to check out the video where I tried out a 55 in OLED

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monitor. Well, TV, I mean the color monitor, whatever. 55 in OLED display as

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a gaming monitor. It's pretty cool. It's from Alienware. Uh, go watch that video.

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It's a good video.